| Weakened beer…. 14:54 - Jun 19 with 16700 views | colinallcars |
Much talk in the papers today about brewers lowering the gravity of their beers to save on excise duty and defray their costs.
Beers mentioned included Fosters, John Smith and Marstons.
No sweat for me as these beers don't find their way down my neck.
Worth observing though - I'm paying £6 plus for a pint of ale. | | | |  |
| Weakened beer…. on 22:50 - Jun 19 with 2720 views | Boston |
Loftboy...is Lowestoft Norwich through and through or is there an Ipswich contingent, or come to that, anyone else?
Edit..I do recall standing on the platform at Norwich er.. Grand Central whatever, and noticing fans of the canaries boarding Lowestoft bound trains. [Post edited 19 Jun 2023 22:52]
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| Weakened beer…. on 22:54 - Jun 19 with 2704 views | Hayesender |
I'm only 10 minutes from Arundel, and there's a couple of really decent tap rooms there. One in the Norfolk Arms next to the castle, and another one at the top of a hill I found by accident.
Anyway, both do some really lovely locally brewed beers, cider, and rum. Makes a nice change from the generic Carling, fosters, Amstel etc etc.
Only downside, I think it may have contributed to an attack of gout | |
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| Weakened beer…. on 23:40 - Jun 19 with 2661 views | Boston |
When they do lock-ins , do the smokers call it gout and snout? [Post edited 20 Jun 2023 2:08]
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| Weakened beer…. on 00:10 - Jun 20 with 2638 views | 100percent |
So here is my take on this for what it's worth.
As some of you may know, I own a few bars and also have a company that puts bars into Festivals (lots of them)
The massive challenge this year has been the struggle to present a sub seven quid pint. All brewers have raised their pricing - some like Heineken to the extent of 20% - it's shocking and difficult to swallow. What the brewers don't understand is that your normal 4 pint man is now drinking 2/3 and then switching to spirits because it has a perceived greater value. There is a glass ceiling to how much most people will pay for a pint - as some of you have mentioned inthis thread, paying a premium for 'craft products' has a greater value, but what we are finding is that that is also being applied to the pricing of products like Fosters and Carlsberg, which frankly cannot justify the same pricing tier.
The changing of the ABV is an effort to have the cost pricing reduced - the tax changes on August the 1st based on drink strengths, therefore reducing the ABV is an attempt to maintain a slightly cheaper wholesale price.
The days of simply passing the price increase on to the customer is just not going to work because there is only so much people willpay for a pint - therefore they are attempting a smarter approach.
Only time will tell if it works. Until they start controlling the major supermarkets using dynamic pricing to encourage families to do their weekly shopping in their establishment, we will slowly see the death of ontrade premises..... | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 00:10 - Jun 20 with 2638 views | loftboy |
See both to be honest, also loads of Westham and a decent amount of QPR as well, when we played Norwich away there was a fair few of us on the Lowestoft train. | |
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| Weakened beer…. on 00:47 - Jun 20 with 2605 views | LazyFan |
Camden Hells is great, Carling makes me puke. | |
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| Weakened beer…. on 01:22 - Jun 20 with 2591 views | SydneyRs |
Was going to say similar. Fosters, the drink you drink when you are not drinking.
As I may have mentioned before, nobody drinks it in Australia. Those old Paul Hogan ads were great marketing indeed. | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 01:27 - Jun 20 with 2585 views | SydneyRs |
I don't know about brewers as such, but there's widespread rampant price gouging by big businesses going on because of inflation expectations and its disgusting. Inflation is already an expectation so lets just add some extra fat for ourselves. It isn't called out enough.
The two main supermarket chains here are a perfect example. Crying poor because of increased supply costs (which there are to be fair and you expect some price increases as a result), but have increased their profits by 15% in the last year. It isn't hard to work out what's going on. [Post edited 20 Jun 2023 1:27]
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| Weakened beer…. on 06:09 - Jun 20 with 2522 views | Mick_S |
I was in a pub in Stockbridge, Hampshire a couple of weeks back. Two Asahi lagers and a couple of fruit based drinks for the ladies (Sangria) came in at £40.00. Unsustainable.
Meanwhile in my local cricket club, the Carling is being necked by the barrel. £3.50 a pint for puddle muck water. | |
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| Weakened beer…. on 07:10 - Jun 20 with 2496 views | KeithW |
"some like Heineken to the extent of 20% - it's shocking and difficult to swallow."
It certainly is. | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 08:46 - Jun 20 with 2421 views | izlingtonhoop |
It's a long way from Reading to Melbourne, so it'd cost too much.
It's 3.7% in cans. | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 09:48 - Jun 20 with 2365 views | BlackCrowe |
TEA is a very good ale. Whilst on the name check of Hog's Back brewery, the Hazy Hog cider is utterly delicious. Not sure who stocks it (other than my local butcher) but you can find it on draught in a few pubs (eg. White Swan Twickenham). | |
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| Weakened beer…. on 10:15 - Jun 20 with 2340 views | robith |
As a punter who goes to a fair amount of festivals as well - post lockdown organisers have been massively scrimping on facilities too, especially toilets. I've moved to spirits cos I don't want to spend half the day queuing for the 3 bogs they've put on (which are all overflowing by 3pm) | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 11:28 - Jun 20 with 2293 views | DannyPaddox |
That’s the pub Colin. As for the Star Trek characters, at certain times of the year I’ve wandered hungover on a midday Sunday through the backstreets of W14 heading for the river for a sobering walk only to see the mildly hallucinatory vision of a gaggle of Marvel characters walking towards me.
Which brings this to mind …
https://youtube.com/shorts/0IaJxtbGDlg?feature=share | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 13:16 - Jun 20 with 2190 views | tkqpr |
I heard mention theres a beer (ale) thats made with "Structured water?"
Banhams/Badlands Brewery? I heard it on a Podcast but didnt have time to make a note or try and decifer the dialect.
Anyone know? | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 14:47 - Jun 20 with 2114 views | R_from_afar |
"The regular piss artistes at our local pub in Surrey drink nothing but Carling and Fosters until they go on to the brandy".
That reminds me of the cricket club I used to play for. There was a group of lunatics who, on a Saturday evening, would pick a spirit or unfashionable drink and guzzle it until the club bar ran out of it. Then they'd sleep in the bar overnight. If you were playing on Sunday, you'd often arrive at the clubhouse as they were brushing their teeth. I remember them decimating our stocks of barley wine, Babycham... Nutters!  | |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Weakened beer…. on 16:05 - Jun 20 with 2078 views | dmm |
Barley wine. I rarely see that often these days. Probably just as well too as it used to give me the mother of hangovers. | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 16:33 - Jun 20 with 2061 views | Boston |
In my 20's I used to drink half a pint of Guinness topped up with a bottle of barley wine. Great drink, always made sure I had someone around to get me home. | |
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| Weakened beer…. on 17:36 - Jun 20 with 2011 views | loftboy |
Just having a pint of Greene king flint eye 4.5 ABV amd was £4.75 in a local hotel in Lowestoft. | |
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| Weakened beer…. on 17:39 - Jun 20 with 2008 views | FG_R |
I would be very wary about anyone claiming to alter the structure of water. Wikipedia reckons it's a marketing ploy based on people's lack of chemistry knowledge. Sounds a bit too much like homeopathy which dilutes the active ingredient with water until there isn't a single molecule of active ingredient left - but which claims that the water has been somehow altered. Homeopathy has been pretty much ridiculed by mainstream science in recent years. | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 19:13 - Jun 20 with 1950 views | Logman |
I actually more partial to weakened beer than inbibing from Mondays to Fridays. | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 19:50 - Jun 20 with 1896 views | eastside_r |
Blimey! I used to drink that back in the day.
I called it a ‘Winter Warmer’ as I tended to drink it in that season.
However, it didn’t really warm you up, just prevented you from feeling the cold or feeling anything else come to think of it. | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 22:37 - Jun 20 with 1806 views | tkqpr |
Even more reason for me to try and seek it out. If its poo pooed by Wiki and mainstream science then its definately got to be beneficial for you.  | | | |
| Weakened beer…. on 22:45 - Jun 20 with 1798 views | Boston |
I'm generally weakened by beer. | |
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